[stillafreemind]

I had no idea that Joni Mitchell and baseball player Billy Koch and his entire family suffer from this. I listened to the Koch interview..yikes.

[BuffaloJack]

How can something that shows up as colored monofilament-like threads growing on and under a person’s skin possibly be without a cause. The CDC’s response does not meet the reasonableness test. There is something they (i.e., the weasels at the CDC) are hiding. (This sounds like some research project to modify bacteria to grow plastics went horribly wrong. Pure speculation.)

[gov_bean_ counter]

I did a cursory read of the report and back up and came to the opinion that the CDC basically said the don't know WTH they are dealing with but don't discount the possibility of a mental component.

My wife and I have consulted a dermatologist, psychiatrist, family RN and PHD in Biology who would tell you that what is growing on(in) us is not a figment of our imagination.

[MamaDearest]

Once again, a disease is said to be a mental disease because there are no other answers for it.

This tune is getting repetitious for the CDC. This is clearly a government agency that needs investigation as to their link to insurance companies that don't want to and refuse to pay insurance claims for Lyme and Morgellens cases.Lyme Disease

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Scarily enough, there are still health care providers out there who do not believe Lyme Disease is a real disease. Like those with CFS, FM and MCS, people with Lyme are told they are "just depressed" or "trying to get attention" or that it is "all in your head" (to be fair, since the spirochetes or their toxins can cross the blood brain barrier, it is in your head, though this is not quite what these doctors were implying...). If this typifies the response you got from your doctor, it's time to find a new one.

Of course, most doctors rely on what the CDC and their state and county departments of health tell them. Anyone who has watched the CDC in action over the past several years (okay, decades) know that whatever it is they are doing, it has little to do with disease control and prevention, especially when it comes to organisms as changeable and adaptive as parasites.

The CDC--and insurance companies--take their cue on what Lyme disease is and how to treat it from the ISDA, a group of self-serving physicians who selectively review only that literature which agrees with their premise: that LD is easily and quickly treated, and if you're still sick, then you're clearly mentally ill. Physician Joseph Schaller discusses the situation in a letter to the editor of The Scientist in February 2007, in response to the dismissive article, State official subpoenas infectious disease group.

[familyop]

Do they produce enough fiber for profitable textiles?